Sr. Software Engineer, MarkUp

🌎 Location: Remote within the UK and Europe

⬆ Reporting Into: Lead Software Engineer, Engineering 

About MarkUp

MarkUp is the leading visual commenting platform for websites, PDFs, videos and images. It’s the perfect companion in your creative process to bring teams together, helping close the feedback loop for anyone that works with multiple collaborators on a project.

Within just 5 years, we have signed up over 800,000 users and won Product Hunt Product of the Year in 2020. Our customers include some of the world’s leading brands such as Verizon, Herbalife, Getty Images, BDO, Colliers, AIG, Rosetta Stone, Johnson & Johnson, and Dolby.

We are owned and operated by our parent company Ceros — a design platform that empowers the creation of bespoke, immersive digital experiences without code. As we share the same DNA as Ceros, we’re also passionate about helping companies transform their approach to creating and managing digital content. 

We are well-funded and institutionally-backed by prominent investors including Sumeru Equity Partners, Grotech Ventures, Greycroft, and Starvest Partners.

About the Team

As part of the MarkUp team, you’ll be working with a small, cross-functional group of the most talented people you’ve ever worked with. We hire only passionate and creative people with a proven and unquestionable ability to execute, and every member of the team is equally responsible for moving the product forward.

We have a dynamic company culture that collaborates daily. We care deeply about the user experience, and we debate passionately about our ideas. When you work at Ceros, you check your ego at the door, and you aren’t afraid to be honest, especially to yourself. We take our jobs seriously but ourselves not so much. As a member of a remote-first team, you embrace transparency and collaboration.

The Role

Building a product that can ingest and render well on any website is no easy task! We require the best-of-the-best, those who are ready to get creative and find solutions to complex problems across multiple browsers, stacks and platforms.

Our software engineers are all full-stack, able to take on whatever work comes their way, and this role is no different. While we expect the initial focus to skew toward the frontend, building high-quality React components, contributing to shared component libraries, and evolving our design system, we also require strong backend experience to contribute across the stack as needs evolve.

MarkUp is built upon TypeScript, comprising multiple services and packages, predominantly NodeJS based. We use libraries like React, Express, Lerna, Webpack and Jest. We believe in using the right tool for the job, our infrastructure runs on NodeJS, Redis, AWS Aurora, Kubernetes and Terraform within the AWS cloud.

Key Responsibilities

• Writing well-architected, maintainable code (probably goes without saying)
• Planning and leading high-complexity stories and epics
• Reviewing story plans and offering insights on impacts to other parts of the application
• Collaborating closely with the Quality Engineering team to write and maintain automated and regression tests, ensuring robust and reliable code
• Participating in constructive code review sessions that focus on quality and productivity, while balancing the need to ship features in a timely manner
• Focusing on delivering an exceptional user experience, with a strong attention to detail that reflects our commitment to creating intuitive and effective products
• Participating as a primary on-call resource for service disruptions on rotation
• Suggesting new technologies and techniques to improve engineer productivity
• Collaborating with and mentoring your peers on security best practices
• And finally, deploying your code to production and seeing the customer revel in feedback loop nirvana
• Bonus Stuff:
• Background in B2B or SaaS and Product-Led Growth Companies
• Experience working in a remote-first environment

Practical stuff we anticipate you having 

• Track record of project ownership and exceptional product delivery
• Competent in TypeScript, Node.js and SQL
• Knowledgeable on best practices in back-end (specifically API) architecture
• Experience working across a broad spectrum of the tech stack, with strong experience in React and Node.js, building and maintaining component libraries, working with design systems, and owning frontend build and tooling (e.g. Webpack)

What we're looking for from the heart 

• You excel in navigating ambiguity, where complex and evolving requirements are more typical than clear-cut customer demands
• You approach large challenges incrementally, preferring a test-and-learn methodology over prolonged heads-down development
• You are self-motivated and proactive, with progress often driven by your own initiative and that of your team
• Experience in a fast-moving startup environment desirable
• You look to uplevel others around you, supporting teams outside of your specific project

Key Things to Know

• This is a full-time position
• This is a remote-first role, working hours aligned with European time zones

Benefits

📍Global remote-first organization 

🏥 Private medical insurance*

🏦 Pension scheme matching*

📈 Stock options

👶 Paid parental leave after a year of employment: 12 weeks for primary caregivers, 4 weeks for secondary caregivers

🌴 Flexible time off

🤒 Paid Sick days

💵 Stipend for your home office setup

💻 Excellent gear (Macbook Pro, external monitor, etc.)

👩‍💻👨‍💻  Stipend towards experiences in which Cerosians can collaborate, educate, and create social connections with one another

🏢 Unlimited access to co-working spaces around the globe

*Varies based on location

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At Ceros, we are deeply committed to the recruitment, retention, and growth of diverse talent; uniting people from unique backgrounds in our shared passion for unlocking creativity through technology.

As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, veteran status, parental status, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information.  We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our company.